The Sunday Paper #504

April 14, 2024

I love discovering new papers – I purchased these lovely sheets (these are detail shots) at The Paper Place in Toronto. The birds and butterflies are cut out of papers printed with different patterns, and the shapes are machine stitched through the center onto natural colored base sheets. So interesting!

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I first met Bea Nettles when we were both teaching at the Women’s Studio Workshop and shared an apartment many moons ago. The Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, recently acquired more than 50 photographically illustrated books from Nettles, making for one of the most substantial collections of her work. They are currently exhibiting 14 publications representing the full range of this singular figure in the field of photobook making.

Bea Nettles, Observer Series, Various objects.

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You have to watch this! SALTICE connects children with professional artists for an interdisciplinary production which includes storytelling, music, dance, paper art and videography. The vision of composer and director Ruben Zahra is to adopt paper as the primary material for the costumes, props and set design through the application of origami techniques, pop-up sculptures and paper engineering.

Kaori Kato | red hats for the Bergstutzen

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A reader turned me onto the work of Jaq Belcher. The art of meditation and the ancient wisdom revealed in her art is accessed through the repetition and precision of cutting the seed shape over and over from a large sheet of white paper.

© Fields, Jaq Belcher

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I hope that some of you get to see show, Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper at The Blanton Museum in Austin (through June 30, 2024).

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Paper Tidbits

• Women’s Studio Workshop, in Rosendale, NY, is seeking a new Executive Director.
• Here’s the March video of the Map Folds Paper Year members explored in March.